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I must admit that Julia Bradbury is a very nice looking lady and not as pretensious as Jimmy Sherwood (just call him Jimmy,Jim or Jimbob as he would prob find it annoying).
But WTF was Rishi doing with all that dancing, i would dance like that if it was late at night and id had a few sherberts and was up for it but good god this was on live tv with a decent audience watching and they see him acting the prick with all that moonwalking.
Royal Ascot is first and foremost a society event these days, which is why the Beeb plays up the fashion
I understand why they do it, it’s the way they do it that I object to.
There are women who go to Royal Ascot who are “society nobodys” i.e. just ordinary folk like us.
It’s their big posh day out of the year and a chance for them to dress up in their finest.
I don’t see any problem with that. Dressing up might be boring to me, but it comes under the banner of “freedom of expression” and all the best to them.
And, I imagine many of them record the BBC coverage of the day’s racing to watch back and look for themselves in the crowd. A bit sad, maybe, but nothing unusual.
How are they going to feel when they’re watching the recording and, when they pop up on screen, there’s some ersehole saying they look like a dog’s dinner.
Whether they do or not – and I guess it’s subjective – it’s mean and unnecessary.
People going to racecourses aren’t giving permission to TV stations to ridicule their dress sense.
You don’t get coverage from Musselburgh where they’re saying things like
“Look at that guy at the paddock… what a fat ******… lay off the pies, pal!… and the guy next to him… hahaha… hey mate, 1994 is on the phone and it wants its jacket back…”
If the BBC wants to talk about clothes on a racing programme, they should show some class and focus on the ones they like and leave the rest in peace.
Steve
PS Of all the women I’ve seen at Ascot this week, the one that dressed the worst was the Queen. I bet Sherwood didn’t have anything bad to say about her clothes.
Why does this man bother you all so much ?
Unbelievable.
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Neil Watson, why put a message to the BBC on this forum ?
couldn’t you find their address.
People going to racecourses aren’t giving permission to TV stations to ridicule their dress sense.
Actually they are indirectly I refer you to Ascot’s Conditions of Entry:-
All Attendees are reminded that many races and fixtures are given coverage on television, radio and in print and various other forms of media. By entering the Racecourse Attendees are accepting they may appear in such coverage. Accordingly, Attendees shall have no right to object to their inclusion in any such coverage. Each Attendee will give any additional consents or waivers required for the unrestricted lawful use of any coverage (if any) without request for payment or imposing any other conditions.[/color:2mj46106]
People know there is critical analysis of fashion so they can’t complain when they are criticised.
To be honest some racegoers got off lightly – there were some sights here yesterday that were quite frankly nauseous!!!
People know there is critical analysis of fashion so they can’t complain when they are criticised.
No they don’t. The disclaimer on the conditions of entry merely say that they may appear on television. It says nothing about a tedious little tit mocking them for general entertainment. And wtf is ‘critical analysis of fashion’? We’re not talking about Brian Sewell discussing the Turner Prize entrants, it’s hats and dresses, for heavens sake.
I think Steve summed it up really well.
Actually they are indirectly I refer you to Ascot’s Conditions of Entry:-
All Attendees are reminded that many races and fixtures are given coverage on television, radio and in print and various other forms of media. By entering the Racecourse Attendees are accepting they may appear in such coverage. Accordingly, Attendees shall have no right to object to their inclusion in any such coverage. Each Attendee will give any additional consents or waivers required for the unrestricted lawful use of any coverage (if any) without request for payment or imposing any other conditions.
People know there is critical analysis of fashion so they can’t complain when they are criticised.
That’s me corrected, then!
However, I stand by my comment that it shows a lack of class and lowered broadcasting standards to slag off the public, rather than focusing on the people they could be making positive comments about.
Steve
What have you done with the photographs, Paul.
Are you thinking of blackmail?
Colin
As if – but now you mention it
That’s me corrected, then!
However, I stand by my comment that it shows a lack of class and lowered broadcasting standards to slag off the public, rather than focusing on the people they could be making positive comments about.
Apologies Steve – didn’t mean to come across that way. Actually I do agree with you – although I would prefer no fashion coverage at all.
Yesterday I arrived at the course later than I planned and ended up in the overflow media centre with the non-racing snappers – it was not a pleasant experience. I would say it was like being with a pack of wild animals but that would be unfair on wild animals. So I feel somewhat jaded as far as fashion coverage is concerned.
Apologies Steve – didn’t mean to come across that way.
There was no offence taken.
I was just admitting defeat and accepting your point that the t&c does give permission for the TV to mock the racegoers.
(Though, that’s like saying the law gives me permission to go up to a fat woman in the street and say “hey tubby, lay of the pies” – it might be legal, but is it really a decent way to behave?)
Steve
If you absolutely have to infuse a horse-racing programme with endless and utterly pointless fashion segments, I’d have thought having a waspish, mincing, queen fronting the slagging-off, would be de rigeur?
Neil Watson, why put a message to the BBC on this forum ?
couldn’t you find their address.
Get a much better response from this one, Plus you never know if someone from the BBC might be looking in on this anyway.
Look foward to reading your coloumn in the Sun tomorrow Barry
I think Sherwood looks like the Corpse of a 19th Century Gay Bloke, and cant believe the BBC hire him to give out fashion advice. And lisa snowden is getting away with nothing, how much does she love herself?
Funny things from ascot this week:
Willie Carson saying "I dont know anything about South Centrals sire Forestry, does anyone else?" followed by silence and a change of topic. Discreet Cat only retired last year.
Picturing the look on Sherwoods face when Rishi Persad was moonwalking on the catwalk.
Jim Bolgers response when asked to give antepost advice on Cuis Ghaire for next years 1,000 guineas. Lets face it, that was very funny.
If I were to write to the BBC I would say that I would much rather see the last race than a half hour royal procession every single day of the meeting, accompanied by a sherwood commentary of tripe like the difference between pink and buttermilk (get a life mate).
I started the week open minded about fashion being a part of ascot that we just had to accept, but cant help but feel the bbc kind of go too far with sherwood, snowden and that annoying bird who has been there every day with sherwood.
Sherwood is just a dancing monkey for the fag end of the artistocracy.
He lacks real class and this, coupled with his vulgar snottiness, means he can’t get into the circles he’d love to move in… but the wannabes and the 3rd raters will bring him out to perform his bitchy queen routine for a few days before they forget about him for another year.
And, I suspect that, deep down, he knows this… and also knows that, sometime soon his act is going to get real old, real fast and the chinless halfwits he’s been clinging to with a sweaty desperation will have lost all interest and moved onto another court jester…
But I could be wrong…
Steve
Excellent post Steve
…I should start eulogising about it in true Sherwood stylie, but can’t be flaffed.Also, incisive analysis from Bulwark – Mr Sherwood may have been slapped about at boarding school, but some boys like that?
Mr Sherwood is more panto than the love child of Lionel Blair and the Crankies (well, the one that looks like a boy but is a woman)
Zip
Ps,
I’ll have OUTRAGE on my back at this rate…
If you absolutely have to infuse a horse-racing programme with endless and utterly pointless fashion segments, I’d have thought having a waspish, mincing, queen fronting the slagging-off, would be de rigeur?
Zip
Agreed with too much fashion and that Sherwood shouldn’t be on at all-but perhaps it’s a small price to pay when you consider how much coverage the BBC put on over the 5 days. Must be in the 16-18 hour range in total.
Yes I agree that do we need all 5 Royal processions-and that showing the 6th race instead would be a trade off that most of us would sign up to.
But despite Royal Processions, James Sherwood, other distractions etc-perhaps we should think instead that we’re very lucky.
Last Saturday Breeders’ Cup/Dubai World Cup winner Curlin made his 1st start after Dubai in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs. Normally a $750,000 race the purse was boosted to $1 Million because Curlin was there and there is always a good undercard with Graded and other Stakes races
The race was not shown on national television.
A lot of other big days are and besides the BC and the 3 Triple Crown races-racefans sit in terror watching Arena Football, Little League Baseball, College Tiddlywinks…. praying that these games don’t go into overtime and they get the dreaded announcement that "the horse racing (which probably only has an hour slot anyway) will follow the completion of the game"
I can think of a few times that our schedules have been messed around with to accomodate other sports. The 1996 Derby was moved to be run during Half-Time of the Euro 1996 opening game between England and Switzerland and the Cheveley Park was held at a strange time for a few years because of a certain persons diatribe at Labour Party Conference
But basically compared to American viewers "you’ve never had it so good"
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